Improvement in toy knitting-machines



J. W. NBwdoMB. Toy Knitting-Machine.

No; 222,937. Patemed Dec. 23,1819;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- JAMES W. NEWCOMB, OF RYE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO DANIEL WHITEHEAD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY` KNITTI NG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,937, dated December 23, 1879; application filed September 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. NEWcoMB, of Rye, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain Improveinents in Toy Knitting-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of 'knitting devices in which the stitches are formed over an annular series of pins concentric with the opening through which the knit fabric is passed as fast as completed. p

The present invention is designed more particularly to provide a pleasing and useful toy for children.

It compriscs, in connection with the body of the knitting device, a novel construction of the pins or staples over which the stitches are formed i the use and operation ofthe device, whereby the formation of the stitches is very greatly facilitated; also, certain novel combinations of parts for guiding the yarn into such relation with the aforesaid pins or staples that the careful manipulation and close attention hitherto required in bringing the yarn into place for forming the stitches is 110 longer'required, said combinations, moreover, greatly facilitating the threading/7 so terned, of the device previous to its use or operation.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a device embracing my said invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional, and Fig. 3 an end, View of certain parts of said device; and Fig. 4 represents 4the picker used in throwing the yarn over the pins or staples in forming the stitches.

Ais the tubular body of the device, the bore a of 'which is of cylindrical form and beveled or enlarged at its outer end, as shown at a' in Fig.2.

Fixed in the broad end b of the body A, and equidistant from the axis thereof, are any desired number of the pins, or, as I term them, staplesj7 B. These, instead of being simply i straight pins, as have hitherto been used, are

of the form of staples, as nore fully shown in Fig. 1, and are provided with smooth rounded outwardly-inclined upper ends, c, which have an important function, hereinaft-ermore fully explained in the operation of the said invention.

In the periphery of the body A is a circum- -ply alpiece of wire having a curve, n, at one end, and having its nain length bent into a loop, Gf. When the4 picker is in actual use this loop forms a convenient handle 'for the picker, the hooked end a being caught upon the main length of the wire, as shown in the uppermost of the views comprised in Fig. 4.

Then desired, the loop may be unhooked, as shown in the lowermost of said views, so that the loop itself may be passed through one ofthe staples B, and thus attached to the device when the latter is not in use.

In using the device the yarn D is applied in snbstantially the same manner as iii the old easily and conveniently, brought throug'l`or\. m

within said guide. Iii order to form the stitches the ring f is turned to bring the yarn across he/outeside of each staple B in succession, the movement being stopped opposite each staple to afford time for making the stitch. The yarubeing thus brought into due position with reference to the staple, and there retained by the tension-coil g, the hook n of the picker G is inserted under the previously-formed loop of yarn, encircliug the staple, and said loop is then cast upward yand inward over the yarn lying across the outside of the staple, and then over the staple itself, thereby forming a complete stitch, which passes into the structure of the completed fabric, whicl latter, as fast as finished, passes downward through the central opening of the body A. As the loop is thus cast over the Outlying yarn and the staple said Outlying yarn is retained by the outwardly-inelined roundedend c, which, while permitting the loop to pass readily and Without obstacle, Will prevent the Outlying yarn from being dragged over the staple, thereby avoiding any use of the thumb or finger of the operator to prevent such dragging, as in the knitting devices of similar class hithcrto in use. The ringf beingintermittently turned to bring the guide g, and consequently the yarn, into proper position with regard to the staples, the stitches are formed over the several staples in suocession, and the operation of forming the stitches is repeated to any desired extent.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. ln combination with the body A of a knitting device, the staples B, provided with smooth, rounded, outwardly-bent upper ends, Which permit the ready casting over of the loops, and at the same time retain the newly' laid yarn, substantially as described.

2. The ring f, construeted with the spiral or coiled guide g, in combination with. the circumferentially-grooved body A and pins or staples B, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

25. The combination, in a knitting device, of the staples B, having smooth outWardly-inclined ends c, the body A, having the circumferential groove b', and the ring f, having at- JAMES W. NEVCOMB.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. WHITNEY, H. WELLs, Jr. 

